Eclipse gushing, Loki update, and mulllltiple book recs. We in the U.S. are a week away from the total eclipse! Is anyone in the totality (or traveling to it)? I added a screenshot of NASA's interactive map of the totality below because it's ju...

I almost titled this email as "February 2019." Well, February has been a bit of a Dumpster fire. (Thank god for that reading retreat last month.) I went to my cousin's wedding and had a lovely time, except that we had a death in the family whil...

What's a reading retreat? We made it up... This month my friend and I drove out to the mountains in east county to spend a long weekend at a cute little family-owned hotel for what we call a "reading retreat." It means, simply, that we spent th...

Happy new year! Happy new year's eve! Calendars may be a mostly-arbitrary human construct, but if you made a goal this year I hope you either a) achieved it, or b) don't care that you didn't.    I didn't get anywhere near as much wri...

You get a holiday, and YOU get a holiday! Still November! Barely. I hope everyone had a good Thanks/Friendsgiving, or whatever else you choose to celebrate. Mine was lovely and calm and honestly everything I could have hoped for.    T...

Oops, it's November Yes, it's November. Oops! May none of you ever suffer from a Santa Ana, though. The air out here is full of all the detritus that bloomed like crazy after the sustained rain we had earlier this year, and now it's all di...

Goodbye September, hellooooo spooky season! Plus some other stuff. Welcome to spooky season! Halloween is my favorite holiday and I've already started decorating a bit. (Not enough to pull stuff down from the attic, but that's for tomorrow.) I'...

Monkeys and haunted houses I had such grand plans for July's newsletter, but it fell off my to-do list when we left the country at the end of the month for my cousin's destination wedding in Costa Rica.    It was kind of a weird trip...

A new hobby and a celebration of art Who else is enjoying some lovely June weather? I love how late the sun stays up.    I've started a new hobby! I'm painting the page edges of books. Right now I'm only doing single colors, but next...

May gray, mitigated by beach trips & books Happy end of May! We're getting close to the beginning of summer, but you wouldn't know it in San Diego. Everything is gray, gray, gray.    I spent a week catsitting for a friend in an apart...

Eclipse gushing, Loki update, and mulllltiple book recs. We in the U.S. are a week away from the total eclipse! Is anyone in the totality (or traveling to it)? I added a screenshot of NASA's interactive map of the totality below because it's ju...

I almost titled this email as "February 2019." Well, February has been a bit of a Dumpster fire. (Thank god for that reading retreat last month.) I went to my cousin's wedding and had a lovely time, except that we had a death in the family whil...

What's a reading retreat? We made it up... This month my friend and I drove out to the mountains in east county to spend a long weekend at a cute little family-owned hotel for what we call a "reading retreat." It means, simply, that we spent th...

Happy new year! Happy new year's eve! Calendars may be a mostly-arbitrary human construct, but if you made a goal this year I hope you either a) achieved it, or b) don't care that you didn't.    I didn't get anywhere near as much wri...

You get a holiday, and YOU get a holiday! Still November! Barely. I hope everyone had a good Thanks/Friendsgiving, or whatever else you choose to celebrate. Mine was lovely and calm and honestly everything I could have hoped for.    T...

Oops, it's November Yes, it's November. Oops! May none of you ever suffer from a Santa Ana, though. The air out here is full of all the detritus that bloomed like crazy after the sustained rain we had earlier this year, and now it's all di...

Goodbye September, hellooooo spooky season! Plus some other stuff. Welcome to spooky season! Halloween is my favorite holiday and I've already started decorating a bit. (Not enough to pull stuff down from the attic, but that's for tomorrow.) I'...

Monkeys and haunted houses I had such grand plans for July's newsletter, but it fell off my to-do list when we left the country at the end of the month for my cousin's destination wedding in Costa Rica.    It was kind of a weird trip...

A new hobby and a celebration of art Who else is enjoying some lovely June weather? I love how late the sun stays up.    I've started a new hobby! I'm painting the page edges of books. Right now I'm only doing single colors, but next...

May gray, mitigated by beach trips & books Happy end of May! We're getting close to the beginning of summer, but you wouldn't know it in San Diego. Everything is gray, gray, gray.    I spent a week catsitting for a friend in an apart...

Eclipse gushing, Loki update, and mulllltiple book recs. We in the U.S. are a week away from the total eclipse! Is anyone in the totality (or traveling to it)? I added a screenshot of NASA's interactive map of the totality below because it's ju...

I almost titled this email as "February 2019." Well, February has been a bit of a Dumpster fire. (Thank god for that reading retreat last month.) I went to my cousin's wedding and had a lovely time, except that we had a death in the family whil...

What's a reading retreat? We made it up... This month my friend and I drove out to the mountains in east county to spend a long weekend at a cute little family-owned hotel for what we call a "reading retreat." It means, simply, that we spent th...

Happy new year! Happy new year's eve! Calendars may be a mostly-arbitrary human construct, but if you made a goal this year I hope you either a) achieved it, or b) don't care that you didn't.    I didn't get anywhere near as much wri...

You get a holiday, and YOU get a holiday! Still November! Barely. I hope everyone had a good Thanks/Friendsgiving, or whatever else you choose to celebrate. Mine was lovely and calm and honestly everything I could have hoped for.    T...

Oops, it's November Yes, it's November. Oops! May none of you ever suffer from a Santa Ana, though. The air out here is full of all the detritus that bloomed like crazy after the sustained rain we had earlier this year, and now it's all di...

Goodbye September, hellooooo spooky season! Plus some other stuff. Welcome to spooky season! Halloween is my favorite holiday and I've already started decorating a bit. (Not enough to pull stuff down from the attic, but that's for tomorrow.) I'...

Monkeys and haunted houses I had such grand plans for July's newsletter, but it fell off my to-do list when we left the country at the end of the month for my cousin's destination wedding in Costa Rica.    It was kind of a weird trip...

A new hobby and a celebration of art Who else is enjoying some lovely June weather? I love how late the sun stays up.    I've started a new hobby! I'm painting the page edges of books. Right now I'm only doing single colors, but next...

May gray, mitigated by beach trips & books Happy end of May! We're getting close to the beginning of summer, but you wouldn't know it in San Diego. Everything is gray, gray, gray.    I spent a week catsitting for a friend in an apart...